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Mindfulness (living in the now)

Would you like to decrease your anxiety? Would you like to decrease your depression? Would you like to decrease your irritability and moodiness? Would you like to improve your learning ability and memory? Would you like to increase your happiness? Would you like to increase your emotional stability? Would you like to increase your ability to effectively manage problems? Would you like to improve your self-esteem? Would you like to improve your breathing? Would you like to lower your heart rate? Would you like to improve your immune function? Would you like to reduce your physical stress responses? Would you like better sleep? Mindfulness is about learning to train your attention to the present moment without dwelling on what has happened in the past or worrying about what will happen in the future.Mindfulness (also translated as awareness) is a spiritual or psychological faculty that, according to the teaching of the Buddha, is considered to be of great importance in the path to enlightenment . It is one of the seven factors of enlightenment. "Correct" or "right" mindfulness is the seventh element of the noble eightfold path. Mindfulness meditation can also be traced back to the earlier Upanishads, part of Hindu scripture. Enlightenment is a state of being in which greed, hatred and delusion have been overcome, abandoned and are absent from the mind. Mindfulness, which, among other things, is an attentive awareness of the reality of things (especially of the present moment) is an antidote to delusion and is considered as such a 'power'. This faculty becomes a power in particular when it is coupled with clear comprehension of whatever is taking place. The Buddha advocated that one should establish mindfulness in one's day-to-day life maintaining as much as possible a calm awareness of one's body, feelings, mind, and dhammas. The practice of mindfulness supports analysis resulting in the arising of wisdom A key innovative teaching of the Buddha was that mediative stabilisation must be combined with liberating discernment. The Satipatthana Sutta is an early text dealing with mindfulness. Mindfulness practice, inherited from the Buddhist tradition, is being employed in Western psychology to alleviate a variety of mental and physical conditions, including obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety, and in the prevention of relapse in depression and drug addiction.Ten Forms. The Agamas of early Buddhism discuss ten forms of mindfulness. The Ekottara Agama has: mindfulness of the Buddha mindfulness of the Dharma mindfulness of the Samgha mindfulness of giving mindfulness of the heavens mindfulness of stopping and resting mindfulness of discipline mindfulness of breathing mindfulness of the body mindfulness of death ​ According to Nan Harijan, the Ekottara Āgama emphasizes mindfulness of breathing more than any of the other methods, and provides the most specific teachings on this one form of mindfulness. ​ Continuous practice In addition to various forms of meditation based around specific sessions, there are mindfulness training exercises that develop awareness throughout the day using designated environmental cues. The aim is to make mindfulness essentially continuous. Examples of such cues are the hourly chimes of clocks, red lights at traffic junctions and crossing the threshold of doors. The mindfulness itself can take the form of nothing more than taking three successive breaths while remembering they are a conscious experience of body activity within mind. This approach is particularly helpful when it is difficult to establish a regular meditation practice. ​​​​​​​​​​​​ Zen criticism Some Zen teachers emphasize the potential dangers of misunderstanding "mindfulness". Gudo Wafu Nishijima criticizes the use of the term of mindfulness and idealistic interpretations of the practice from the Zen standpoint:

However recently many so-called Buddhist teachers insist the importance of 'mindfulness.' But such a kind of attitudes might be insistence that Buddhism might be a kind of idealistic philosophy. Therefore actually speaking I am much afraid that Buddhism is misunderstood as if it was a kind of idealistic philosophy. However we should never forget that Buddhism is not an idealistic philosophy, and so if someone in Buddhism reveres mindfulness, we should clearly recognize that he or she can never be a Buddhist at all. Muho Noelke, the abbot of Antaiji, explains the pitfalls of consciously seeking mindfulness.

We should always try to be active coming out of Samadhi. For this, we have to forget things like "I should be mindful of this or that". If you are mindful, you are already creating a separation ("I - am - mindful - of - ...."). Don't be mindful, please! When you walk, just walk. Let the walk walk. Let the talk talk (Dogen Zenji says: "When we open our mouths, it is filled with Dharma"). Let the eating eat, the sitting sit, the work work. Let sleep sleep. ​ Scientific research Mindfulness (psychology). Mindfulness practice, inherited from the Buddhist tradition, is increasingly being employed in Western psychology to alleviate a variety of mental and physical conditions. Scientific research into mindfulness generally falls under the umbrella of positive psychology. Research has been ongoing over the last twenty or thirty years, with a surge of interest over the last decade in particular. In 2011, NIH's National Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) released finding of a study where in magnetic resonance images of the brains of 16 participants 2 weeks before and after mindfulness meditation practitioners, joined the meditation program were taken by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Bender Institute of Neuroimaging in Germany, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. It concluded that "..these findings may represent an underlying brain mechanism associated with mindfulness-based improvements in mental health." A January 2011 study in the journal Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, based on anatomical magnetic resonance images (MRI) of Mindfulness based Stress Reduction (MBSR) participants, suggested that "participation in MBSR is associated with changes in gray matter concentration in brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self-referential processing, and perspective taking."

Mindfulness and Living and being in the now Hypnotherapy with Clive Westwood as seen on Today Tonight, 2GB Radio, Nine News and ABC Radio leading authority on Anxiety and Depression hypnotherapy 1 on 1 sessions and Mp3s Clive Westwood Hypnotherapy, 85 Sydenham Rd Norwood SA 5067, 0450 413 918